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1. In what town was
Newton born?

(A) Cambridge

(B) London

(C) Woolsthorpe

(D) Winchester

2. When did Newton's
father die?

(A) When Newton was three

(B) Before Newton was born

(C) A month after Newton was born

(D) A month after Newton died

3. What did Newton's
mother do when he was three?

(A) She died

(B) She remarried

(C) She sent him away to school

(D) She divorced his father

4. Who ruled England
during Newton's youth?

(A) James II

(B) William and Mary

(C) Elizabeth I

(D) Oliver Cromwell

5. What was the dominant
religious group in England in the 1550s?

(A) The Quakers

(B) The Puritans

(C) The Catholics

(D) The Presbyterians

6. The return of
King Charles II in 1660 was known as what?

(A) The Reformation

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(C) The Interregnum

(D) The Restoration

7. Where did Newton
become a student in 1616?

(A) Trinity College

(B) Jesus College

(C) Eton

(D) Oxford

8. In what year did
London suffer a disastrous fire?

(A) 1663

(B) 1669

(C) 1640

(D) 1666

9. In 1666, Newton
retreated to his mother's home to escape the...

(A) London Fire

(B) Inquisition

(C) Civil war

(D) Plague

10. In 1666, Newton
discovered that white light is composed of:

(A) Green and red light

(B) White photons

(C) Air and water

(D) A spectrum of all the colors of light

11. What did Newton
call his method of doing calculus?

(A) Trigonometry

(B) The quadratic equation

(C) Vortices

(D) Fluxions

12. The famous story
of how Newton came to discover gravity involves the fall of a(n)

(A) Lightning bolt

(B) Apple

(C) Dynasty

(D) Rock

13. What was the
name of the Frenchman who explained the orbit of planets using a
theory of vortices?

(A) Descartes

(B) Laplace

(C) Galileo

(D) Leibniz

14. According to
Newton, how does the force of gravity vary in regard to planets?

(A) Inversely with the cube of their diameter

(B) Inversely with the square of their distance
from the sun

(C) Directly with the square of their distance from the Earth

(D) Directly with the square of their mass

15. In 1669, Newton
was appointed to which position?

(A) The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics

(B) Master of the Royal Mint

(C) Member of the Royal Society

(D) President of Trinity College

16. Who composed
the Royal Society?

(A) Scientists and intellectuals

(B) Clergymen

(C) Nobles

(D) The King's friends

17. In what year
did Newton join the Royal Society?

(A) 1672

(B) 1665

(C) 1660

(D) 1685

18. Newton's first
paper presented to the Royal Society detailed his research into
which field?

(A) Gravity

(B) Optics

(C) Calculus

(D) Alchemy

19. Who was Newton's
great rival in the Royal Society?

(A) Edmund Halley

(B) Christopher Wren

(C) Robert Hooke

(D) Gottfried von Leibniz

20. The orbit of
a planet, according to both Kepler and Newton's inverse square law,
traced the shape known as a(n)

(A) Parabola

(B) Circle

(C) Ellipse

(D) Hyperbola

21. Which astronomer
encouraged Newton to publish his work on gravity?

(A) Christian Huygens

(B) Robert Hooke

(C) Edmund Halley

(D) Johannes Kepler

22. The title of
Newton's great work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was
frequently shortened to what name?

(A) Mathematica

(B) Naturalis

(C) Principia

(D) Novum Organum

23. What does the
title Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica mean
in English?

(A) Natural Philosophy of Mathematics

(B) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

(C) Principles of Mathematical Philosophy

(D) Mathematics, the Prince of Nature and Philosophy

24. What did Newton's
third law of motion state?

(A) A body in motion tends to stay in motion

(B) To every action there is always opposed
an equal reaction

(C) The change in motion is proportional to the motive force
impressed, and is made in the direction of the straight line in
which that force is impressed

(D) The universe is composed of space-time

25. Which of the
following things was not accounted for by Newton's theory of universal
gravitation?

(A) The bending of light as it passes through
a prism

(B) The tides

(C) The earth's bulge at the equator, and the flattening
at the poles

(D) The behavior of comets

26. How did Newton
conceive of his scientific explanations in relation to religion?

(A) They were a way for mankind to come closer
to understanding God

(B) They disproved the existence of God

(C) They proved that prophecies and miracles could not happen

(D) They supported the divine right of kings

27. The complete
edition of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was
first published in what year?

(A) 1685

(B) 1687

(C) 1693

(D) 1713

28. According to
Hooke, Newton had stolen the ____ from him

(A) First law of motion

(B) Principle of ellipses

(C) Theory of relativity

(D) Inverse square law

29. The political
events of 1688-89 are known as the:

(A) Restoration

(B) Glorious Revolution

(C) American Revolution

(D) English Civil War

30. In 1688-89, the
English throne passed from ____ to ____

(A) Charles I; Charles II

(B) James II; George III

(C) Charles II; William

(D) James II; William and Mary

31. Newton suffered
a nervous breakdown in what year?

(A) 1693

(B) 1699

(C) 1706

(D) 1689

32. In 1696, Newton
was appointed to what post?

(A) President of the Royal Society

(B) Professor of Mathematics at Oxford

(C) Warden of the Mint

(D) Prime Minister

33. What was alchemy
the study of?

(A) The signs of the zodiac

(B) The interpretation of biblical prophecy

(C) The transmutation of base elements into
valuable elements

(D) The divinity of Christ

34. What came of
Newton's experiments with alchemy?

(A) He met with failure

(B) He predicted the Second Coming

(C) He transmuted lead into gold

(D) He discovered the principle of flight

35. Which Christian
heresy did Newton subscribe to?

(A) Arianism

(B) Puritanism

(C) Donatism

(D) Mormonism

36. After 1699, what
post did Newton acquire?

(A) Master of the Mint

(B) First Lord of the Admiralty

(C) Chancellor of the Exchequer

(D) Minister of Science

37. Newton wrote
more than a million words on what subject?

(A) The philosopher's stone

(B) Theology and the interpretation of the
Bible

(C) The electromagnetic spectrum

(D) Descartes' theory of vortices

38. For Newton and
his religious friends, interpreting prophecy offered a way to discover
the date of what event?

(A) Jesus' birth

(B) The creation of the world

(C) The Second Coming

(D) The conquest of England

39. Newton was elected
President of the Royal Society in what year?

(A) 1703

(B) 1672

(C) 1687

(D) 1714

40. Newton attained
the Presidency of the Royal Society only after the death of which
man?

(A) Halley

(B) Hooke

(C) Leibniz

(D) Descartes

41. In 1704, Newton
published which work?

(A)
Propositiones de Motu

(B) The third edition of the Principia

(C)
Novum Organum

(D)
Opticks

42. With which European
mathematician did Newton quarrel in the early 1700s?

(A) Christian Huygens

(B) Gottfried von Leibniz

(C) Rene Descartes

(D) Robert Hooke

43. This quarrel
was over which man had developed ___ first.

(A) Universal gravitation

(B) Calculus

(C) The particle theory of light

(D) The philosopher's stone

44. In 1705, Newton
received a ___ from Queen Anne

(A) Dukedom

(B) Medal

(C) Knighthood

(D) Earldom

45. What was the
name of the royal astronomer who attempted to challenge Newton in
the early 1700s?

(A) Halley

(B) Leibniz

(C) Flamsteed

(D) Descartes

46. Which of the
following describes Newton's romantic life?

(A) He never married, but had several mistresses

(B) He was a self-declared homosexual

(C) He never married, nor did he have mistresses
or lovers at any point

Please note that G.W. von Leibniz died in 1716, not 1714 as stated in the time line.
In the test, the question where Isaac studied mentions the year 1616, err for 1661.
I took the test and came to 94 % but I contend that he never had any lovers at no point. He was inFatioated as far as I know so the right answer is not in the list!